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A dedicated humanitarian and staunch advocate for children's rights, Tara co-founded the non-profit peer counseling organization C.L.U.B. (Children Living Under Blindness) at age 12 and has toured middle schools in both America and Canada educating children on their rights and resources since the age of 15. Cardinal has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology.

In addition, she writes poetry and fiction, as well as for websites such as the IndependentCritic.com and NerdRemix. She currently lives in Los Angeles. 

ALEX BLEDSOE grew up in west Tennessee an hour north of Graceland (home of Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He has been a reporter, editor, photographer and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman.

He is known for his Eddie LaCrosse novels, namely
The Sword-Edged Blonde
, as well as his Tufa novels published by Tor,
The Hum and the Shiver
and
Wisp of a Thing
, and his own “Tales of the Firefly Witch” series. He now lives in a Wisconsin town famous for trolls, writes before six in the morning, and tries to teach his three kids to act like they’ve been to town before.